Hat and coat holder.



No. 646,99l. Patented Apr. lo, |900.

y J. HunLEY. n AND COAAT HOLDER.

(Appumiman my s1, 1891s..)V

UNITE lll STATESV PATENT OFFICE.

J'OI'IN HURLEY, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TOSIDNEY D. KINGSTON, OF SAME PLACE.

HAT AND COAT HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettere Patent No. 646,991, dated April10, 1900. Application filed May sl, 1898. serial No. 652,135. (Nomodel.)

' .To @ZZ whom, l? may con/cern:

Be it known that I, JOHN IIURLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Little Falls, in the county of Herkimer, in the State ofNewYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement in I-Iat and CoatHolders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates-to that class of hat and coat holders having aloop which encircles the crown or body of the hat and rests against theouter side of the brim, so as to hold the hat against the wall or othersupport to which the holder is applied.

The principal object of my invention is to produce a holder of this kindwhich reliably retains the hat in place and at the same time permits thesame to be conveniently placed in the holder and removed therefrom.

A further object of the invention is to combine the hat-holder with acoat-hook in a simple and inexpensive manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a front view of my improvedholder applied to a wall or other support and showing a hat in theholder. Fig. 2 is a side view of the holder with a hat in the saine.Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse section in line 3 3, Fig. l. Fig. 4 isa detached horizontal section of the holder, taken immediately above thespringcoils. Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section in line 5 5, Fig.l, looking upward.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A is a support to which the holder is attached and which lnay be a wallor the back of a chair or churchpew.

B is thev loop of the holder, which is preferably constructed of wireand shaped to encircle and receive the crown or body of different-sizedhats. This loop is arranged substantially parallel with its support, andits end portions ct converge downwardly and are provided with transversespringmoils b,which are attached to the support and which yieldinglyhold the loop against thesupport. These coils are preferably formedintegrally with the loop extensions d and are wound around a cylindricalcore o, having heads or enlargements c', which retain the coils inplace.

5o Each of the extensions a is connected with the inner side thereof.

`ing upwardly from the inner ends of the spring-coils and secured to thesupport A by a clip or plate E, which is screwed or other; wise fastenedto the support, thereby securely attaching the holder to the support.This clip is provided in its inner side with a recess for receiving theattaching branches d of the holder, as shown in Fig. 5.

F F are upwardly and forwardly projecting coat-hooks which projectoutwardly from the adjacent inner ends of the coils b and which arepreferably formed integrally therewith. In forming these hooks afterbending the coil the length of wire left at the inner end of the same isextended forwardly, upwardly, and outwardly and doubled lupon itself andbent to form the hook, and the return branch of this doubled portion isthen bent upwardly around the under side of the coil to form theattaching-arm d, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. The doubled hooks may betwisted to stiften the same. If desired, the holder may be provided withbut a single coat-hook.

In the normal position of the hat-holder the elastic loop rests againstthe face of the support A, and when it is desired to place a hat in theholder the loop is seized at its upper free portion and sprung away fromthe support a suliicient distance to permit the crown of the hat to bepassed through the loop from The loop is then released, whereupon thespring coils which have been strained by the outward movement of theloop react and cause the loop to bear against the hat-brim, therebyholding the hat against the wall and preventing the same from beingknocked down.

By bending my improved hat-holder and coat-hooks from a single piece ofwire, as hereinbefore described, a very simple construction s obtainedwhich enables the device to be manufactured at a small cost.

I claim as my invention@ l. In a hat-holder, the combination of a IOO 'spring-wire and comprising a bow or loop which is constructed toencircle the crown of a hat and which has downwardly-converging endportions, transverse spring-coils extending from said end portionstoward each other, doubled branches which extend from the inner ends ofsaid spring-coils forwardly and backwardly, and attaching-arms formed atthe inner ends of said dou-bledvbranches, substantially as set forth.

3. 'In a hat-holder, the combination with a Wire bow or loop constructedto encircle the crown of a hat and having its downwardlyconverging endportions formed at their lower ends into transverse spring-coils whichterminate at the adjacent inner ends of the coils in attaching-arms, ofa core arranged in both v coils and provided at its ends with headswhich confine the coils upon the core, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 18th day of May,

JOHN HURLEY. Witnesses:

JOHN OROURKE,

CHAs. F. ONEILL.

